But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.